Tolkien, l'anneau de la discorde LE MONDE CULTURE ET IDEES | • Mis à jour le | Par Raphaëlle Rérolle C'est un cas rare, pour ne pas dire exceptionnel : à une époque où la plupart des gens vendraient leur âme pour faire parler d'eux, Christopher Tolkien ne s'est pas exprimé dans les médias depuis quarante ans. Pas d'entretien, pas de déclaration, pas de conférence – rien. Une décision prise à la mort de son père, auteur du célébrissime Seigneur des anneaux (The Lord of the Rings, trois volumes parus en 1954 et 1955) et l'un des écrivains les plus lus dans le monde, avec environ 150 millions de livres vendus et des traductions dans 60 langues. Caprice ? Non, la fière réserve de Christopher Tolkien a une autre cause : l'écart vertigineux, presque un abîme, qui s'est creusé entre les écrits de son père et leur postérité commerciale, dans laquelle il ne se reconnaît pas. Cette galaxie marchande pèse désormais plusieurs milliards de dollars, dont la majeure partie ne revient pas aux héritiers.
Microsoft WAVE soundfile format The WAVE file format is a subset of Microsoft's RIFF specification for the storage of multimedia files. A RIFF file starts out with a file header followed by a sequence of data chunks. A WAVE file is often just a RIFF file with a single "WAVE" chunk which consists of two sub-chunks -- a "fmt " chunk specifying the data format and a "data" chunk containing the actual sample data. Call this form the "Canonical form". Who knows how it really all works. I use the standard WAVE format as created by the sox program: Offset Size Name Description The canonical WAVE format starts with the RIFF header: 0 4 ChunkID Contains the letters "RIFF" in ASCII form (0x52494646 big-endian form). 4 4 ChunkSize 36 + SubChunk2Size, or more precisely: 4 + (8 + SubChunk1Size) + (8 + SubChunk2Size) This is the size of the rest of the chunk following this number. As an example, here are the opening 72 bytes of a WAVE file with bytes shown as hexadecimal numbers: Notes: General discussion of RIFF files: References:
How You Can Make Big Money Importing From China – The Rise and Fall of My Empire… My very first profitable business was importing products from China and selling them online – mainly through Amazon & eBay. I started out with counterfeits at 12-years old, and by the time I was 17 I had built multiple different e-commerce brands into an empire I was proud of. I was incredibly confused when I was first getting started. I had hundreds of questions racing around my head: A couple hundred dollars worth of imports What product should I sell first? When you’re trying to start a new business from scratch, you’ll find your mind running in circles unless you have a clear direction to run into… So my goal is to make this the definitive A-Z guide to starting an importing & e-commerce business from scratch. I’ll give you every step of the process, and also give some insights on the ‘why’ behind my strategy. Finally – I encourage you to follow this guide step-by-step, and to avoid jumping around. Basic Overview: Your Roadmap First things first, let’s wrap our heads around the concept…
Tala (music) A tala is a regular, repeating rhythmic phrase, particularly as rendered on a percussive instrument with an ebb and flow of various intonations represented as a theka, a sequence of drum-syllables or bol. Indian classical music, both northern and southern, has complex, all-embracing rules for the elaboration of possible patterns and each such pattern has its own name, though in practice a few talas are very common while others are rare. The most common instrument for keeping rhythm in Hindustani music is the tabla, while in Carnatic music it is the mridangam (also transliterated as mridang). Examples of bol, notation and additive counting in Hindustani classical music The first beat of any tala, called sam (pronounced as the English word 'sum' and meaning even or equal, archaically meaning nil) is always the most important and heavily emphasised. Carnatic music uses various classification systems of tālas such as the Chapu (4 talas), Chanda (108 talas) and Melakarta (72 talas). Tihai
Step-by-Step Guide on How To Find A Profitable Product To Sell This post is a follow-up to How You Can Make Big Money Importing From China – The Rise and Fall of My Empire… In my last post, I showed you all how you can create your own importing business on the side. I got an overwhelming amount of positive feedback and great questions from that article, and I can’t explain how much I appreciate it – thank you all! But ultimately, my last article did not go far enough in showing you how to get started… Where I Failed Though my last article did help a lot of people, I got a TON of questions from readers asking how to find a good product to sell. What this means is that I failed to explain this part of the process well enough in my last post; which is terrible, because that is the most important part! Though I answered everybody’s questions as well as I could, there were undoubtedly many confused people who did not have the time to email me or comment. So without further ado, here is the Step-by-Step Guide on How To Find a Profitable Product To Sell… Done?
A Grammar of Ithkuil, a Constructed Philosophical Language Cloruro Sónico (1987-1989) Fanzine de música experimental Cloruro Sónico fue un fanzine en la más pura línea: maquetado a mano a partir de fotocopias, recortes de todo tipo, letras transferibles y textos escritos a máquina (una Olivetti Lettera 10, la más sencilla y económica del mercado). La tirada también se hacía con fotocopias y sólo los primeros números pasaron de los 100 ejemplares. En las dos primeras entregas contamos con la colaboración del artista plástico Herminio Andújar (quien luego pasaría a confeccionar con José Ernesto Alberola el fanzine IEEE488). Cuando apareció en mayo de 1987 sólo otra publicación, Syntorama, informaba de la música industrial y experimental que se hacía en España a finales de los 1980. Los nueve números editados están disponibles para descargar gratuitamente en formato PDF, con detalladas instrucciones para su reconstrucción. Nº1. Primer número con la evidente falta de experiencia: - Comentarios de novedades - El Coleccionista de Poliedros - Entrevista a Orfeón Gagarin - Syntorama nº11 - Sello S.T.I. Nº2.
EX LIBRIS Synth Secrets, Part 5: Further With Filters Gordon Reid continues his series on the theory of subtractive synthesis by delving deeper into the amazingly complex world of the analogue audio filter. This is the fifth article in a 63-part series. Read all parts. Last month, we started looking at audio filters, demonstrating (if not proving) that they are also phase-shifters, and therefore mess with your audio signals in more ways than one. In doing so, we skipped over the most important aspect of such devices: their abilities to remove parts of the audio spectrum and create new tones from old. Passive Filters Figure 1 shows the passive low-pass RC filter first introduced last month (incidentally, you can, with a fair degree of accuracy, define a passive component as one that draws no power except that presented as the signal at its input -- so resistors, capacitors and inductors are examples of passive components, while transistors and other amplifiers are not). Applying The Filter Steepening The Slope Up the Pole Let's Get Active
Great String Parts On A Budget Technique : Composing / Arranging Whether you're recording real players or using samples, our in-depth guide is your key to polished and authentic-sounding strings. Mike Senior There was a time when lush-sounding string overdubs were one of the hallmarks of a big-budget production, and while there's still nothing that quite matches the sound of a real string orchestra, these days you can get amazingly good results on a budget. Pulling off this feat involves a combination of arranging, programming, recording and mixing skills, but most software sequencers provide all the tools you need to have a stab at it, even if you're not confident with traditional musical notation. Quick Fixes For String Arrangements Irrespective of how you plan to realise the sound of your arrangement, there are lots of quick fixes that can help transform rookie string arrangements into something more musically effective, regardless of your facility with notation. Aim For The Gaps Beware Of Footballs Violin: G2 to E5
FLAC - format This is a detailed description of the FLAC format. There is also a companion document that describes FLAC-to-Ogg mapping. For a user-oriented overview, see About the FLAC Format. Table of Contents Acknowledgments FLAC owes much to the many people who have advanced the audio compression field so freely. A. It is a known fact that no algorithm can losslessly compress all possible input, so most compressors restrict themselves to a useful domain and try to work as well as possible within that domain. Within the audio domain, there are many possible subdomains. Architecture Similar to many audio coders, a FLAC encoder has the following stages: Blocking. Definitions Many terms like "block" and "frame" are used to mean different things in differenct encoding schemes. Block: One or more audio samples that span several channels. The size used for blocking the audio data has a direct effect on the compression ratio. Blocked data is passed to the predictor stage one subblock (channel) at a time.